Xenopus egg cytoplasm with intact actin

Methods in Enzymology

Volumn 540, Issue , 2014, Pages 399-415

  Field, Christine M ^a,b   Nguyen, Phuong A ^a,b   Ishihara, Keisuke ^a,b   Groen, Aaron C ^a,b   Mitchison, Timothy J ^a,b  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b MARINE BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Actin; Cell cycle; Cell free system; Egg extract; Microtubule; Xenopus

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; MYOSIN ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; MYOSIN II;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL CYCLE M PHASE; CELL CYCLE REGULATION; CELL FREE SYSTEM; CYTOPLASM; EGG; EMBRYO; INTERPHASE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCEDURES; PROTEIN ISOLATION; REPRODUCIBILITY; XENOPUS; ZYGOTE;

ACTIN; CELL CYCLE; CELL-FREE SYSTEM; EGG EXTRACT; MICROTUBULE; XENOPUS;

ACTINS; ANIMALS; CELL CYCLE; CELL-FREE SYSTEM; CYTOPLASM; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; OVUM; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 84896360328     PISSN: 00766879     EISSN: 15577988     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-397924-7.00022-4     Document Type: Chapter

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